Petrochemicals

Neste, a producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel produced from waste and residue raw materials, has agreed to acquire 100% of Walco Foods – an Irish trader of animal fats.

Itero has raised €6 million in investments, with €5 million from Infinity Recycling’s Circular Plastics Fund, to support the design and construction of a plastic-to-product demonstration plant located in Geleen, the Netherlands.

LyondellBasell has recently joined NEXTLOOPP – an initiative aimed at creating circular food-grade recycled polypropylene from post-consumer packaging.

Siemens Energy is joining the AWS Partner Network to provide customers with industrial cybersecurity, analytics, and storage solutions.

TotalEnergies has announced the start-up of a new ethane cracker in Port Arthur, Texas, US.

BASF SE has announced its final approval for the construction of the planned Verbund site in Zhanjiang, China. The focus will now be on building the core of the Verbund, which includes a steam cracker and several downstream plants for the production of petrochemicals.

Dragos has announced the expansion of its global agreement with Emerson. With this agreement, Emerson has validated the Dragos Platform within its DeltaVTM distributed control system, providing organisations with greatly enhanced ICS/OT cybersecurity.

Clariant has been awarded a major contract by Wanhua Chemical Group to supply catalysts for its new maleic anhydride plant, which is designed to produce 200 000 tpy of maleic anhydride.

Sulzer is investing £1 million to expand and upgrade the Ellon facility in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, creating an advanced rotating equipment service centre with the capability to overhaul electric motors, pumps, gearboxes and turbocompressors under one roof.

Lummus Technology has announced the launch of a major enhancement to its ethane feed steam cracker that is capable of achieving zero CO2 emissions from an ethylene plant.

Braskem plans to expand its offering of certified circular polypropylene by utilising Nexus Circular's advanced recycling technology, which converts landfill-bound plastics into high-quality materials used in the production of virgin-quality circular plastics.

BASF has launched a new line of products for the purification of most complex waste plastics pyrolysis feeds to enable downstream processing of circular plastics streams.

Shell Chemicals Park Moerdijk has announced a new investment that supports its plan to transition the chemicals park to produce low-carbon products and products made using recycled material.

Neste has received a positive grant decision for up to €135 million from the EU Innovation Fund for the company’s project to build chemical recycling capacities at its Porvoo refinery in Finland.

Axens has announced that Plastic Energy’s TAC process has now been fully integrated into the company’s technology portfolio.